Emerging Hawking-like Radiation from Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Beyond the Planck Scale

Abstract

We argue that, as a consequence of the graviton's spin-2, its bremsstrahlung in trans-planckian-energy ($E\gg M_P$) gravitational scattering at small deflection angle can be nicely expressed in terms of helicity-transformation phases and their transfer within the scattering process. The resulting spectrum exhibits deeply sub-planckian characteristic energies of order $M_P^2/E \ll M_P$ (reminiscent of Hawking radiation), a suppressed fragmentation region, and a reduced rapidity plateau, in broad agreement with recent classical estimates.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Comments and references added. Typos corrected. Fig. 3 modified. Title modified. Same as published articl